Well, I headed up to the Blue Mountains again. I met Kirsten, Krysta and Therese at Leura. We headed to Katoomba for breakfast and then headed down to the Jenolan Caves. We went to the Imperial Cave and then had lunch. In the cave we managed to catch up with the group before and had to be rescued by our own group. I guess it is harder to keep a track when you are also keeping track of the kids. We were disrupted at lunch by a false fire alarm, in the midst of a shower of rain. One man did not want to evacuate. He thought it was all a joke to make him look like a fool. I felt sorry for the staff. After this we wandered over to the lake, but the platypus were not to be seen and then we did a little walk before heading home.
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Well, I popped up not once, but twice on this web page. See if you can see me the second time. Click on the picture to go to the page (Strawberry Fields – the heart of Malaysia & Thailand: Day 4 & 5)
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Well in the end we were filling in time before the next meal. But given how terribly British kitsch this place is, Kellies Castle is quite a surprising bit of architecture and bit of former colonial glory. The problem with most of the good architecture in Malaysia that I saw is that it is still in use and locked up by the owners. The weather was perfect. The time with the family great. And the state of the ruins quite surprisingly good. And quite a few photos. I love taking photos of interesting architecture.
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After visiting the houses, we stopped at the Menglembu Market and purchased a few things. I guess that this market was probably there when my father lived in this town. But I’d also guess that there were servants to do the shopping. We wandered around. The food as always with these places was top quality and very fresh.
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Well, If I remember correctly Taman Negara means national park. It is the first. It also claims to be the oldest continuous rainforest in the world. It certainly is muddy and wet. But then if it was not, it would not be a rain forest. I was not really planning on doing a walk like this, but there was a very nice German couple who I met the night before and they had booked a tour which had a maximum of three people and asked if I would like to join them. So in the end I said yes, over breakfast after sleeping on the idea for the night.
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Well, I was not feeling very well, so I had a slow morning. About lunch I hopped in the van and headed down to Kuala Tembling. I did intent to go over to Taman Negara and do the canopy walk. In Kuala Tahan I visited some shops and on the way back bought some lunch. Though I ended up with curry rather than ginger chicken. Still, no point arguing really. In the end I purchased a Taman Negara t-shirt.
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I spent the early part of the day resting. Also I put the clothes in to the laundry for washing. Around lunch I decided to reconnoitre the main resort, grab some lunch and do the canopy walk. Well, because of all the rain the night before the canopy walk was closed. So I ended up doing a bit of the swamp walk, visited the information centre in the park, grabbed some lunch as a floating restaurant in Kuala Tahan and headed home.
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People were surprised that I went to Kota Bharu, why would someone like that go to a place like that they said. Well to an extent I went to Kota Bharu becuase it is different. But also becuase it was logically in a travelling loop to get to Taman Negara from Penang without going back down the west coast. I caught the bus from Butterworth and the trip over the mountains had taken a few more hours than I had been told to expect. But then I had distrusted the body language of the man who told me. He was guessing.
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We stopped at the big red strawberry farm. I have to say I was bored. But it is something you have to do. Being a farm boy, all I saw was a vegetable producing factory, very sterile and way to touristy. Give me a real working farm any day. But still lots of photo opportunities to fill in the time.
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We drove back from Klang and visited the Batu Caves. Just as we got there the afternoon’s storm arrived and we hid for a while in a food stall. After some food, we headed out into the temporarily flooded courtyard and headed up the steps. There were over 250 of them. Though this was not impossible. I did go to a Buddhist temple in Ipoh with over 500 a week later. The Batu Caves have a Hindu temple to Murugan.
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